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Students praise teacher Tanya Langus for supportive classroom at Russell Jones Education Center
Summary
In remarks captured in the meeting transcript, Tanya Langus described classroom culture she helped build at Russell Jones Education Center and students credited her with improving their English skills and providing personal support.
Tanya Langus, a high school teacher at the Russell Jones Education Center, told the meeting transcript she is in her 20th year of teaching and described the supportive classroom culture she and colleagues have created.
The comments matter because students said that culture — and Langus’s one-on-one support — helped them improve academically and feel safe enough to learn. Several students recounted concrete changes in comprehension and classroom engagement since being in her classes.
"What I love best about my job is the culture that we've created at Russell Jones," Langus said in the transcript, describing the classroom environment she aims to sustain.
A student identified in the record as Student 1 said, "She gives me advice, and she takes the time to check-in with me every so often just to see how I'm doing, checking on things like at home, if everything's good at home, if I'm doing, like, the things that I know help me succeed." The student credited Langus’s regular check-ins with supporting their success.
Another student, identified here as Student 2, said Langus "she's always nice to everyone no matter what, and she always gives everyone grace," and added, "She helped me get better in English with grammar and writing techniques." A third student described classroom activities that aided comprehension: "In English, she, she just made it more fun. I feel like she just we've, like, actually read books and stuff and did things to it, like, did, worksheets, like, worksheets from it, and it made it more fun to go along with the book. And it that helped me with my comprehension, which before I wasn't that good. But then my last preACT that I took, I got a % on all the comprehension questions." The transcript does not specify the percentage cited by the student.
Langus summarized the programmatic and emotional goals of her work: "That's 1 of the greatest joys of this job is that when you know that that child has had a rough go in in education and they come here and they don't wanna leave. And so you know that you're successful in creating that environment of they feel safe, and if they feel safe, they can learn." She also said she is "very proud to be in a district that supports these students with this building and a recent addition to our building. Being in the Park Hill School District is a dream for special education."
The transcript captures personal testimony and classroom description; it does not record any formal action, vote or policy decision related to the remarks.
